Garry Wotherspoon

Gay Sydney (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Garry Wotherspoon's Gay Sydney: A History is an updated version of his 1991 classic, City of the Plain: History of a Gay Sub-culture, written in the midst of the AIDS crisis. In this vivid book Wotherspoon traces the shifts that have occurred since then, including majority support for marriage equality and anti-discrimination legislation. He also ponders the parallel evaporation of a distinctly gay sensibility and the disappearance of once-packed gay bars that have now become cafes and gyms. This book also tells the story of gay Sydney across a century, looking at secret, underground gay life, the never-ending debates about sex in society and the role of social movements in the '60 and '70s in effecting social change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of New South Wales Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781742242316
• Artikelnr.: 44912010

Autorenporträt

Garry Wotherspoon, a former academic at the University of Sydney and a former NSW History Fellow, is a leading historian of many aspects of Sydney life. His books include Sydney's Transport: Studies in Urban History; Being Different: Nine Gay Men Remember; and City of the Plain: History of a Gay Sub-culture. His The Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts: A History was published in 2013 to commemorate its 180th anniversary, and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's History Awards. He was awarded Australia's Centenary of Federation medal for his work as an academic, researcher, and human rights activist.